Self-care behaviors and factors related self-care behaviors of schizophrenic inpatients at King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital and Somdet Chaopraya Institute of Psychiatry
Abstract:
To study self-care behaviors and factors related self-care behaviors of schizophrenic patients. The subject of this study include 95 schizophrenic patients who had admitted to King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital and Somdet Chaopraya Institute of Psychiatry. The research instruments comprise the demographic data questionnaire, the questionnaire based on the social support (The Personal Resource Questionnaire : PQR part II) from Brand and Winenert, Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale : BPRS and the self-care behaviors of schizophrenic patients questionnaire. The data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson' s product moment correlation coefficient and stepwise multiple regression analysis. The results showed that the majority of schizophrenic patients had self-care behaviors (30 days before they had admitted to the hospital) at the medium level (62.1%). The predictive factors to self-care behaviors of schizophrenic patients were the social support and the education level. As patients with high level of the social support and having education level higher than secondary school would have self-care behaviors better than the others and both of them could predict self-care behaviors at 20.0% and p<.05 level.